Pop Quotes

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop. (Iggy Pop)
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done. View quote
Jeff Koons
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head. View quote
William Landay
The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable. View quote
K. Barry Sharpless
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. View quote
Leonard Baskin
It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go. View quote
Jack White
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. View quote
James A. Michener
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. View quote
Sting (musician)
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture. View quote
Alan Kay
And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can. (Pete Townshend)
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. View quote
Norman Granz
Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. View quote
Orville Redenbacher
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. View quote
Peter Tork
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. View quote
Robert Wyatt
Disco is just pop music you can dance to. View quote
Sheena Easton
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. View quote
Trevor Dunn
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that. View quote
Hilary Duff
The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing. View quote
Alanis Morissette
Harry Dresden: On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain. (Jim Butcher)
What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. View quote
Roy Lichtenstein
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. View quote
Roy Lichtenstein
I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Comey is one of my heroes. I have a picture of him on my wall in my office at the FBI, reminding me of the legacy I've inherited and that I must honor. View quote
James Comey
We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show. View quote
Syd Barrett